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Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…
Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smithies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smythies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...
London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Nathaniel Crouch ..., 1689
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Chapter 10: Wherein the great Arguments, and pretended Scripture-Proofs for Infant-Baptism, concern…
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Hence it was the Jewish Christians, instead of looking upon Circumcision to be a Privilege upon a spiritual account, could not but acknowledge it a great Mercy they were delivered from it; and hence 'tis the Apostle exhorts the Saints to stand fast in that Liberty in which Christ had made them free, 1and not be entangled again in the Yoke of Bondage.
Hence it was the Jewish Christians, instead of looking upon Circumcision to be a Priviledg upon a spiritual account, could not but acknowledg it a great Mercy they were delivered from it; and hence 'tis the Apostle exhorts the Saints to stand fast in that Liberty in which Christ had made them free, 1and not be intangled again in the Yoke of Bondage.
Neither ought such a thing (as Mr. Danvers observes) to be any more esteemed the loss of a Privilege than our not enjoying literally a Holy Land, City, Temple, a Succession of High-Priests, and Priesthood, by Generation or Lineal Descent. (For you know their Children were Priests successively in their Generations, a Levite begat a Priest or Minister, as well as they and other Tribes begat Church-Members.)
Neither ought such a thing (as Mr. Danvers observes) to be any more esteemed the loss of a Priviledg than our not injoying literally a Holy Land, City, Temple, a Succession of High-Priests, and Priesthood, by Generation or Lineal Descent. (For you know their Children were Priests successively in their Generations, a Levite begat a Priest or Minister, as well as they and other Tribes begat Church-Members.)